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NASA harnesses space technology to find victims of natural disasters

06/17/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/DHS) While Google recently made news with a patent filing for drones that could provide emergency medical services, NASA has long been finding ways to take their innovative space-bound technology find a way to apply it to everyday life on…

NASA ‘flying saucer’ launch delayed by rough seas, next try Wednesday

06/02/2015 Published on Foxnews.com
NASA’s second Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator is prepared for a June 2015 flight test at the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. Launch is now set for June 3. (NASA) An innovative saucer-shaped parachute that NASA scientists have…

NASA photographs Pluto’s moon Charon

07/12/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
New Horizons LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) composite image showing the detection of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, cleanly separated from Pluto itself. The frame on the left is an average of six different LORRI images, each taken with (NASA/Johns Hopkins…

Meet one of NASA’s newest astronauts now (before she heads to Mars)

06/22/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
June 18, 2013: Jessica U. Meir, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, poses outside the hospital in Boston. On Monday NASA announced that Meir was chosen as one of eight new astronauts its first new…

Colossal solar flare, strongest of 2013, shoots from sun

05/13/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory shows a colossal X1.7-class solar flare erupting from the sun at 10:17 p.m. EDT on May 12, 2013 (Mother’s Day). It is the strongest solar flare of 2013 so far. (NASA/SDO) The sun…

Sun unleashes spectacular solar eruption

05/06/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
A burst of solar material leaps off the left side of the sun in what’s known as a prominence eruption. This image combines three images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured on May 3, 2013, at 1:45 pm EDT. (NASA/SDO/AIA)…